On January 19, 2016, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day, King’s son addressed more than 10,000 protesters gathered at Florida’s state capitol. “This is about justice,” Martin Luther King III intoned before the throngs of mostly black and brown protesters. “This is about righteousness. This is about truth.”
The hashtag emblazoned on the protesters’ fluorescent-yellow shirts read “#DropTheSuit.” The target of their ire was the state’s teachers’ union, which — along with assorted left-wing groups and parts of the public-school establishment — was suing to end Florida’s main school-choice program.
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